1968-69 College Basketball Season Summary

National Champion: UCLA

Final Four: Drake, UNC, Purdue and UCLA

Consensus Player of the Year: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

AP Preseason #1: UCLA

AP Final #1: UCLA

Conference Summary

Conference Summary Table
Rk	Conference	Schls	W	L	W-L%	SRS	SOS	AP	NCAA	FF	Regular Season Champ	Tournament Champ
1	Big Ten Conference	10	141	102	.580	10.11	8.40	2	1	1	Purdue
2	Pacific-8 Conference	8	120	90	.571	6.14	3.65	1	1	1	UCLA
3	Western Athletic Conference	6	93	68	.578	5.29	2.48	0	1	0	Brigham Young, New Mexico, Wyoming
4	Atlantic Coast Conference	8	120	96	.556	5.03	3.44	2	1	1	North Carolina	North Carolina
5	Southeastern Conference	10	140	118	.543	3.98	3.37	1	1	0	Kentucky
6	Missouri Valley Conference	9	135	104	.565	3.77	2.83	2	1	1	Drake, Louisville
7	Big Eight Conference	8	114	95	.545	3.57	2.97	2	1	0	Colorado
8	Mid-American Conference	7	88	85	.509	2.82	3.05	0	1	0	Miami (OH)
9	Independent	56	779	636	.551	-1.37	-0.24	7	9	0
10	Ohio Valley Conference	8	120	83	.591	-1.89	-2.01	0	1	0	Morehead State, Murray State
11	Southwest Conference	8	100	95	.513	-3.30	-2.52	0	1	0	Texas A&M
12	West Coast Athletic Conference	8	110	96	.534	-4.32	-2.52	1	1	0	Santa Clara
13	Ivy League	8	95	106	.473	-4.70	-3.61	0	1	0	Princeton
14	Big Sky Conference	6	83	76	.522	-5.59	-3.15	0	1	0	Weber State
15	Southern Conference	8	104	106	.495	-7.08	-4.56	1	1	0	Davidson	Davidson
16	Metropolitan Collegiate Conference	8	110	85	.564	-9.09	-6.73	0	0	0	Manhattan, Saint Peter's
17	Middle Atlantic Conference	10	131	118	.526	-9.87	-7.19	1	1	0	Temple
18	Yankee Conference	6	65	80	.448	-14.72	-10.38	0	0	0	Massachusetts
19	Southland Conference	1	8	18	.308	-19.00	-2.00	0	0	0	Trinity (TX)

AP Poll Summary Table
School	Pre	12/2	12/9	12/16	12/23	12/30	1/6	1/13	1/20	1/27	2/3	2/10	2/17	2/24	Final
Duke	17	16	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Northwestern	-	-	-	-	-	19	12	17	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Colorado	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	17	17	20	14	18	-	18
Louisville	-	-	-	19	14	14	14	-	-	-	-	20	13	11	15
Boston College	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	16
Kentucky	3	3	4	4	4	3	7	5	5	5	4	4	6	6	7
Marquette	15	20	-	-	-	-	20	15	16	16	17	18	20	18	14
UCLA	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
La Salle	-	-	20	16	17	11	11	11	9	9	7	5	4	3	2
Tulsa	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	14	13	11	7	14	19	-
Purdue	10	14	13	12	18	-	-	-	18	14	9	8	9	9	6
New Mexico State	-	-	-	14	15	12	10	7	7	8	16	15	15	16	12
Western Kentucky	16	17	15	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
South Carolina	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	12	8	13
Detroit	18	15	14	13	11	7	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Baylor	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	19	-	-	-
Duquesne	-	-	-	-	-	15	15	12	10	11	15	13	8	10	9
Illinois	-	-	-	-	12	8	4	8	8	7	10	10	19	15	20
Iowa	-	20	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wyoming	-	-	-	-	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Ohio State	12	13	17	17	16	13	16	13	12	12	12	16	10	14	-
Houston	8	6	12	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kansas	5	4	11	11	8	5	5	10	13	15	13	12	16	13	19
Vanderbilt	13	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
St. John's (NY)	-	-	-	-	-	17	8	6	6	6	5	9	7	7	8
California	-	19	18	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
UNC	2	2	2	2	2	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	4
Santa Clara	-	18	16	10	9	6	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	4	3
Villanova	11	10	8	8	5	9	9	9	11	10	8	11	11	12	10
Florida	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Davidson	6	6	3	3	3	2	6	4	4	4	6	6	5	5	5
Cincinnati	14	9	6	6	10	10	19	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tennessee	20	20	-	-	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	17	17	-
Dayton	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	20	19	17	-	-	-
New Mexico	9	8	5	5	6	18	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	-
Notre Dame	4	5	7	7	7	16	17	16	15	-	-	-	-	-	17
St. Bonaventure	7	11	10	9	13	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Columbia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	18	14	-	-	-	-
Drake	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11

Statistical coverage for seasons prior to 1992-93 is mostly complete, however there are a small number of unknown player records.

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